Saneuman
Oct 18, 2020Explorer
Forest River Issues
We have owned our FR Cardinal for about 2.5 years now. Out of that time, it has been in the shop to be fixed for about 480 days! On our first trip out, the hydrolics FAILED! We had to have a mechanic come out and repair before the trailer could be moved. It just keeps getting better and better. We have talked and talked to FR, and are so frustrated. Little problems like moldings falling off, stove not working, fan breaking, wrong size tanks put in the trailer.....the list seriously goes on for 6 typed pages, I was thinking about starting a Diary of a Cardinal Lemon! Our most recent problem, we took it in for new tires, about 25k on these, and the mechanic changed out the tires. The mechanic told us the trailer is NOT ROAD WORTHY! The shackles holding up the rear axle are BOTH BROKEN! They didn’t even want us to take it the 13 miles home! In addition, the mechanic said our 5th wheel looks like it has a quarter of a million miles on it!! After paying A LOT $$ We are done! Anyone have suggestions? Anyone else have problems?